Frank the Troll

Another plus for sharpcap, well worth the £10 for the licence, simple and effective

Try Drakes equation

Ps my name isnt Stephen

Your spec is fine, get a NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB to pop in for : c drive

 and get a usb caddy for a 2.5" SSD, and you can swap storage drives  as needed

1 hour ago, BCN_Sean said:

Just downloaded the manual and had a look, there's a section in there right down on page 351 which goes through the steps of if the camera won't fire off when the shutter is pressed and then on page 314 - 317 is what modes are available with what types of lenses.

 

Not finding the menu options I need

1 hour ago, BCN_Sean said:

I think (as it's been a couple of years since I've had my hands on a D5x00 series), in the custom menu, setting A1, change that option to "release" and then set the focus to AF-C or Manual.

Not finding anything in the camera settings or manual that helps

I put a t ring on my nikon D5500, hook it up to the scope, but shutter button presses down, but doesnt release, so wont take a shot

Makes no difference what mode camera is in, cant be the camera, as a teleconverter works just fine

Is it the wrong t-ring, it said nikon when I brought it. I can view through the scope with the camera, but cant take a photo

Any ideas ?

Should be some drivers about

Thats very local to me, overdue another visit

17 hours ago, F15Rules said:

Thanks Ade. 

I've just ordered one tonight to use with my 9x63 Orion Mini Giant bins👍

Dave

Dave,let me know how they fit, I have a 9x63 celestron

4 hours ago, Alien 13 said:

Me too... Shame they dont have a video editing package also, would have that as well.

Alan

Be silly not  too at the current silly price, even at full price they are still a bargin

On 15/02/2021 at 11:42, Viktiste said:

I just bought Affinity photo. They have 50% discount at the moment!    🙂👍

I have photo, Im considering getting designer too

lol. much better

17 minutes ago, GrahamD said:

Thanks all, I was trying to add in the “about me” section, never thought to look in account settings.  I also need more than 10 posts to enable the feature which this reply does for me !

thanks again

Graham

Change the colour of the font, that blue is making it hard to read

16 minutes ago, FLO said:

 

The handle is now available separately in red or black anodising 😊 

StellaMira Telescope Handle

 

 

Will be wanting one of these shortly

2 hours ago, spillage said:

Hi Dave and welcome.

I too am local to you. Just outside Langport. My advice is to not get involved with astrophotography....🙃

Hopefully as lockdown is eased,you can pop over to me

17 hours ago, Zummerzet_Leveller said:

Hi Dave,

Welcome from a fellow Somersetian - Langport direction.

Another local.. just the other side of Somerton

1 hour ago, PeterCPC said:

@Stuart1971@Frank the Troll

Confirmation from Neil Carboni

I'm sorry, no, Astronomy Tools actions only work with Photoshop.

Our plug-ins, AstroFlat Pro, StarSpikes Pro 4, and StarFilter Pro 4, by contrast do work with Affinity Photo

 

Cheers  Peter, will have a look see

19 hours ago, Spile said:

I wouldn't be without SkEye 

Stellaraium & Sky Safari does for me

2 hours ago, PeterCPC said:

Yes I use some PS plug ins quite happily.

 Any chance that this would plug in ?  https://www.prodigitalsoftware.com/AstronomyToolsActions.html

This should speed things up a little, and its not affected by clouds

18 minutes ago, tomato said:

A newcomer coming up on the rails so to speak is Affinity Photo, it was a cheaper alternative to PS a year or so ago, but now it has built in dedicated Astro functionality including calibration and stacking, who can say what other Astro features it might have in another 12 months?

Affinity photo is the new kid on the block, it has only just release their new astro tools, give it some time to develop, and it will be the main goto progam to use. IMO I find it user frendly, all it really needs now is PS plug-in combatibility, , and it will be the main goto app.  As for the price, its as cheap as chips, so grab it while you can

48 minutes ago, PeterCPC said:

But I don't think that it's advanced enough yet

basic yes, but it works, give it time, pretty sure it will turm out well.  To me it seems much more friendly & initutitive to use, and the price is an outright bargin

44 minutes ago, PeterCPC said:

What about stacking - APP?

Stacking and more can now be done in Affinity Photo

6 minutes ago, fozzybear said:

set active hours for windows update's or disable it

thats next on the, will disable it, have already got rid of edge & cortana

32 minutes ago, Dr_Ju_ju said:

solving software, eqmod ?....

Cheers, forgot about that one

(new laptop, so setting up again)